Category: Streetcars
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The old and venerable Blossom Hotel stood on the north side of Main Street, near the corner of St. Paul Street. A respite for travelers along road or canal, the Blossom Hotel enjoyed a high profile reputation. Wamsley Brothers was comprised of Joseph, Thomas, and Edward Wamsley, milliners and silk merchants. The Wamsleys moved their…
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If you’re a Rochesterian, there is one crucial aspect without which no picture of daily life is fully rendered; a familiar and frustrating piece of the Rochester experience that can’t be left aside. I’m speaking, naturally, of snow and its removal, which you may have gleaned from the title. Rochester has long been gifted with…
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Is there a Green Street in Rochester? Once upon a time, there was! The name never made it past the 19th century, but the thoroughfare technically still exists: over the decades, it morphed into South Clinton Avenue south of Howell Street. But to start, it was a simple street laid out between Jackson Street [Capron…
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There are views of Rochester NY that our ancestors took for granted. Peering from atop some long-lost building or since-dismantled bridge. The balcony of the Elwood building, the catwalk structures clinging to the sides of the Main Street Bridge, places where now only a talented drone-pilot could take a shot. Imagine yourself on an iron…
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As early as 1890, talk began to build about the need for a new east-west conduit for traffic between east Rochester and Brighton. A common answer to this need was a call to extend Park Avenue westward, past its present termination point at Alexander Street, continuing as far as Court Street. In addition to the traffic benefits,…
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In my research regarding my local neighborhood one name comes up prominently again and again: Allen L. Wood. Wood’s extensive land holdings meant his name became ubiquitously written across the plat maps of subdivisions along Culver road, between Garson and Atlantic, and stretching east nearly to Akron Street. The reason for these extensive land holdings…